5 Monday evenings, Jan 20th-Feb 17th 2014

Please select the option titled 'Solicitors' if you are wanting to gain CPD Points. 

Any other please select option titled CPD 

The five sessions will be devoted to:

1. Conversion in its historical setting (from the Bible to the Talmud);

2. The conversion process in post-Talmudic sources (esp. the emphasis on the convert’s motivation), including historical material such as the Khazar conversions;

3. Conversion Out of Judaism, with historical material from the Christian, Muslim and Holocaust contexts; its effects within both Jewish law and secular law (including Israel’s Law of Return);

4. Conversion as a life changing event, including the impact on and relations with family and community;

5.Contemporary problems in conversion: recognition of conversions (and conversion authorities); retrospective annulment of conversion; Orthodox and non-Orthodox conversions; conversion and the Race Relations Act (the JFS case in England).

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